As you may already know, the AdWords Display Network (also known as the Google Display Network/GDN) is the biggest digital ad network in the world. It allows you to advertise on publisher properties like websites, mobile apps, Gmail, YouTube and more.

Compared to the AdWords Search Network, the Display Network also houses the largest viewership of any online platform. YouTube itself has a monthly viewership equivalent to 10 Super Bowls – so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that display advertising is said to capture 34% of all online ad spend and about 10% of all marketing budgets.

But with new channels come different strategies.

What you’re doing on the AdWords Search Network will not perform the same way on the Display Network.

If the Display Network is uncharted territory for you, here’s how you need to adjust your current PPC strategy to get the results you want.

Different user behavior calls for a different strategy

The biggest difference between the AdWords Search Network and Display Network can be seen in the sweet visual I had my designer custom-make below.

In the “Chuck Norris” action cycle above, you can see how the power of keyword intent in the Search Network can put people really close to taking action (AKA converting), but the Display Network typically has visitors who are a few steps behind.

This is because people who are on the Display Network aren’t actively searching for what you offer. As Erin Sagin puts it, they’re rarely in “shopping mode.”

Instead, Display Network visitors are most likely in the research phase when your display ads are hitting them. They’re on forums, blog posts, or watching that YouTube vid trying to gather enough information to make a decision. They don’t know what they need yet, so your job is create awareness.

If you’re selling more of an “emergency” service like being a locksmith or roadside assistance, then you’ll have a hard time using the Display Network to your advantage.

This is simply because ads on the Display Network are not triggered from a search engine like text ads on the Search Network are. The Search Network works as a demand harvester (your ads are grabbing the intent), while the Display Network works as a demand generator (your ads are creating awareness).

So how do you change your strategy from the Search Network to also make the AdWords Display Network a money making machine?

Create trust and deliver value

As I mentioned, your Display Network ads could be interrupting someone who’s reading the news, reading a blog or watching a video.

Because of that, the level of commitment it takes for someone to stop what they’re doing, click your ad, then call you or fill out your landing page form is high and much more unlikely compared to the Search Network. In other words, you can’t expect to have the same campaign conversion rates on the Display Network as you do on the Search Network.

If you’re offering “Free Quotes” on the search network because people are actively searching for someone who can relieve their problem, it might actually be better for you to lead with valuable educational material (i.e. your content) on the Display Network.

A perfect example of this is my crush of an email marketing company, Emma.

Emma uses the AdWords Search Network to drive sign ups, but they use the Display Network to give you great, fun and actionable value. Here’s what some of their Display Ads look like (click on them to go to the accompanying landing page):

I reached out to Cynthia Price (the Director of Marketing at Emma) and she gave me this golden nugget about how they use the AdWords Display Network:

We get that someone seeing a display ad isn’t necessarily interested in learning more about our product just yet. It’s all about brand awareness, and more importantly for us, trust-building.

So we offer content that we think will be valuable and helpful to our audience’s marketing efforts. It starts our brand relationship off on the right foot, helps them understand the strength of our expertise and paves the way for us to nurture or retarget them in the future.

You already know that content marketing’s core foundation is about adding true value.

Your display ads should be no different.

On the Display Network, your first goal is to establish trust by giving value, and then nurture the visitors down the road to become paying customers.

Revisit your targeting options

Once you have a great piece of content that delivers value and educates your audience, it’s time to figure out how to target it to people who actually want it.

To illustrate how each one works, let’s pretend you’re a dog walker. Your name is Lori and you live in Huntington Beach, CA. You’ve been advertising on the AdWords search network and this is your landing page:

What are your best targeting options?

Placement targeting

Placement targeting allows you to advertise directly on certain publisher sites. This means you could have your ad show up on Forbes or CNN if you’d like.

Best practice advice: Make sure the website or page’s audience is relevant to what you’re offering. Don’t shotgun approach all of CNN – sniper shot individual placements within CNN if you can.

Contextual/Keyword targeting

Contextual/Keyword targeting allows you to give Google your keywords and have it automatically find relevant placements for your ads.

Best practice advice: Mix this with placement targeting to be even more laser focused with your targeting.

Topic targeting

Topic targeting allows you to go more broad than regular placement targeting.

For this, you could target the topic of Pets & Animals directly and cast a wider net, with the possibility of your ads showing up on FerretLovers.com (yes, that’s a real site).

Best practice advice: See what Topic targeting gives you, then exclude unwanted placements from your campaign once things are running and data is coming in.

Interest targeting

Interest targeting is kind of similar to topic targeting, but instead of judging the context of websites, interest targeting tracks behaviors of web users. This targeting method can be even more vague than topic targeting.

Best practice advice: Every industry is different, so always test things out and see the performance. Be quick to pause and exclude irrelevant placements once data comes in.

Combining targeting methods

This is where you’ll have a lot of fun and potentially get better results.

You’re not locked into using just one targeting method with the AdWords Display Network. In fact, Alistair Dent over at Search Engine Watch and many others highly recommend never going with just one targeting option, but combining multiple together.

You can target certain placements with the addition of contextual/keyword targeting to tell Google that you only want your ads to show when a visitor is on CNN and reading an article about dog walking.

Or you can target different interests with contextual/keyword targeting as well.

Create multiple ad groups, each with their own targeting specifications, and see how they perform against each other. Once you’ve hit your stride and conversions are coming in, pause the other ad groups that aren’t working, and make variations of the ad group targetings that are working for you, so that you can squeeze more out of your PPC dollars.

Wrapping up

Wow! Quite a bit of info huh?

Now that you clearly know why your Display Network strategy has to be different from your Search Network strategy, what do you have to lose? Get started now. Try different targeting combinations, and never forget to offer true value.

What have you found to be the best driver of conversions on the AdWords Display Network? How different are your strategies compared to the ones we talked about?

Elegant Steps offers a large selection of wedding shoes in the UK, both online and in store. More than 50% of its users are new, female users discovering the website organically through mobile. The bulk of them are brides-to-be who are looking for wedding shoes.

Problem

After looking at Elegant Steps’ Google Analytics (GA) data, it was found that while its desktop website was converting at 2%, the mobile version was converting at a much lower 0.6%.

Observations

Hit Search, a digital marketing agency, used VWO to help Elegant Steps dig deep into the problem. They used GA, heuristic analysis, and VWO’s scrollmaps and heatmaps capabilities to find that:

Hardly any visitors were scrolling enough to reach the Shop by Brand section on the home page.

Many studies have found that unexpected shipping cost is the biggest reason for cart abandonment. It was hypothesized that displaying “Free Shipping” above the fold will help reduce bounce and encourage users to continue down the conversion funnel.

Change the CTA copy from the generic “Shop Wedding Shoes” to the possessive, “Find my new wedding shoes.”

Change the text color on the image for the text to be readable.

This is how the variation looked:

Test

Hit Search ran the new version of the home page against the original only for mobile visitors, using VWO’s targeting capability. Niall set VWO’s Bayesian-powered statistics engine to “High-Certainty” mode, and the results kicked in within a month.

Results

“The results were positive with almost a threefold increase in conversions and almost a 50% drop in bounce rate,” said Niall.

In his closing thoughts, Niall had this to say, “VWO is a brilliant all-round conversion optimization platform which we use on a daily basis to perform user analysis, A/B and split tests,” he added.

Mobile an afterthought?

According to a 2015 report, the average conversion rate for mobile websites in the US was 1.32%, significantly lower than its desktop counterpart (3.82%). Though studies have suggested that visitors mostly use mobile for research purposes and make the actual purchase through desktop website, there’s no denying that online retailers are still leaving money on the table. We would love to your thoughts about optimizing mobile websites. When does it become important for you to start looking at mobile optimization? Just hit us the comment section below.

It may seem demoralizing to spend hours writing a trustworthy article, only to have the latest abomination from Buzzle or ListVerse outrank you. Don’t panic about this. Time is on your side. What do I mean by this? Google and Bing have made it a priority to highlight more timely news articles at the expense of content mills and tabloids. Search engines have the ability to read articles in a human-like way and determine their finer qualities. Human editors also play an important part in filtering out untrustworthy sites from truly valuable resources of information. In addition to search engines…

These days, the first thing I do after setting up a new website is link it to Google Search Console. Previously known as Google Webmaster Tools, this free resource from Google shows how the search giant crawls and indexes websites. It is invaluable for anyone needing to monitor: Their site’s performance in search results Content accessibility Malware and spam issues Frankly, anyone who has a website should use this excellent tool. If you’re not already using it, here’s how you can get started. Note: If you ever find this guide to be out-dated, please reach out to me on Twitter…

Regardless of your industry/niche, reaching the upper echelons of the search rankings is vital in our search-centric consumer world. According to Optify, “websites ranked number one received an average click-through-rate (CTR) of 35.4 percent; number two had a CTR of 12.5 percent; and number three had a CTR of 9.5 percent.” When you break it all down, having the number one spot will essentially bring you the same amount of traffic as spots two through five combined. That’s pretty incredible! To prove the importance of SEO for Ecommerce even further, just consider the fact that 44 percent of people begin…

It seems like pay-per-click (PPC) is a strategy that’s sometimes overshadowed by organic SEO for the simple fact that it tends to yield smaller profit margins. Here’s my advice: Don’t neglect any channel that delivers any profit margins. While it’s true that you’re probably not going to see the same ROI with paid search as you would with SEO, paid search still has plenty of potential. In fact, “businesses generally make an average of $2 in income for every $1 they spend in AdWords.” Not too shabby. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a huge fan of organic traffic, content marketing,…

Marketing trends are always changing. Some take flight, some evolve and some die.

But, with each new marketing trend comes new important insights and tips.

If you love self-improvement (like we do), and enjoy keeping on top of trends, it’s likely that you’ve bookmarked hundreds of blog post and articles in the past year. Maybe you’ve opened up multiple tabs on your computer in hopes that one day you’ll get some time to read them — posts that you’ve maybe completely forgotten about. Let’s be honest, you may never read these marketing blog posts.

These actionable and information-heavy blog posts will get you get you ready for next year’s big projects. Via Startupstockphotos.com.

The Unbounce marketing team has both written and read tons of actionable, thought-provoking marketing blog posts this year. We’ve selected the crème de la crème — posts that are the exact remedy to get your brain stimulated and on track to produce smart marketing ideas for 2016.

Here are 10 of our favorites posts that will help you step up your marketing game in the new year.

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This post by HubSpot’s blog editor, Ginny Soskey, discusses the age-old debate: quality versus quantity of content. If you’ve been thinking about revamping your editorial strategy or even running some experiments with your content, this post delivery all the nitty-gritty details you could have ever wanted.

“But that’s not how blogging works in real life. To grow a blog, you need to consistently publish content that your readers enjoy reading. Yet exactly how often to publish and what those posts should look like can vary tremendously […].”

Why did we love this post? Ginny’s post takes no prisoners. No details are left behind in Hubspot’s ambitious blog publishing experiment. Every detail is laid out and provides a roadmap for how other marketing teams can plan and execute a full-funnel, data-driven content strategy.

In this post, Celine Roque lays out how marketers can leverage this medium in order to produce sponsored content. As it turns out, podcast listeners are among the most highly engaged of any medium.

As Celine puts it:

“Podcast listeners are actually “super listeners,” consuming more than one hour and 45 minutes of audio per day than the average American, and they spend more than 25 percent of their total audio time listening to podcasts.”

With shows like Serial and This American Life gaining mainstream popularity, podcasting has moved beyond the niche and hobbyist world into something we should be taking notice of and experimenting with.

Sometimes, growth hacking is considered a “throw spaghetti on the wall” solution for attracting users, yet growth is a strategy based on observation of markets and understanding the consumer — it’s anything but a hack.

Phil Barnes has insider insight from First Round Capital’s portfolio of companies — companies that they fund at the seed level and that are dependent on growth to survive. Phil shares his expert advice and gives us an in-depth understanding into what growth actually means for a company.

Quote: “As you scale, you need to think about quality of users, not just quantity. Critically, growth is not just about adding net new users, but about developing a deep understanding of how to make your business grow.”

His advice is valuable, but his insights on how to shape your growth efforts into a full-blown strategy are essential for any startup, marketing team or entrepreneur looking to move beyond top-of-the-funnel acquisition.

Content marketers often rely on their creativity and writing chops to create content that resonates with their audience. In other cases, content marketers may have a love of data and strategy. Andy Crestodina is the whole package.

His post runs through how to use Google Analytics to find blog post ideas when your creative well may have run dry. He also highlights that it’s important to use data alongside empathy to guide us:

“As a content marketer, you can take the guesswork out of the process by using data-driven empathy: using analytics to get into the heads of your visitors and find topics they care about most (and the topics that will convert).”

If you’re a content marketer working for yourself, a company or an agency, this post breaks down each step you’ll need to make data part of your content creation process. Take a walk on the wild side and make room for some Google Analytics data that will help your marketing ideas in 2016.

Chances are that you’re currently using email marketing in one way or another. But if you’re sending out lifecycle emails and are considering revamping them to better suit your goals in 2016 — this post is for you.

“Welcome emails are your chance to create a positive first impression and secure the trust that will fuel a long-term customer relationship. All you have to do is follow the lead of that fictionally famous swashbuckling swordsman Inigo Montoya.”

She breaks down what a healthy lifecycle email marketing strategy should look like and gives helpful tips on customer retention, conversion and engagement. If you’re in the market to improve your current lifecycle email strategy, this post has your name all over it.

If you’re past the “just trying this Twitter thing out” phase and you happen to be a marketer, this post is going to knock your socks off. Social platforms like Twitter have a ton of useful information, but it’s all in how you mine for it.

This is where Ash Read’s post comes to the rescue. Ash dives deep deep into Twitter’s Advanced Search and gives detailed, step-by-step instructions that will show you technical know-hows as well as how to leverage Advanced Search for marketing hacks and experiments.

The post reads almost like a manual and it’s sure to take your social media sleuth skills to a new level by arming you with all the necessary data you need to monitor tweets more in-depthly, come up with content ideas or even find new sales leads.

If you’re currently using Twitter every day, then taking advantage of the Advanced Search function should be a no brainer in 2016.

What elements make a Facebook Ad convert? Does the text really matter? Is choosing eye-catching images really all you need?

If you’ve ever asked yourself any of these questions then this post by post by Andrew Tate has the answers. Andrew and the AdEspresso team have likely created the most comprehensive roundup of Facebook ads out there.

Whether you’re a performance marketer or interested in social ads and A/B testing, this post is full of information that gives you insight into what the big players are doing, what trends or words are most effective or even what tone works best.

This post goes beyond common best practices and dissects currents ads. The result is a post that is full of actionable information from top to bottom. Don’t make any more ads without reading this post.

Sometimes it’s hard to think of creative ways to increase conversions, places where some tweaking could lead to magical things. If you aren’t lucky enough to work with a CRO expert, there are many experiments you can run to help increase and optimize conversions in your business.

“No matter how high your conversion rates are, or your customer base, or your revenue… there’s room to grow. And holding steady is not an option. If you’re not doing more every single day to grow faster and stronger than the day before, then the hungrier company right behind you will. Conversion optimization is no different.”

Alex Turnbull’s post breaks down eight conversion experiments that Groove attempted this past year. Alex gives a step-by-step for each of these conversions experiments so that you, too, can run these experiments with your campaigns. From giveaways to autoresponders, this post will inspire you and your team to get testing in 2016.

If you’ve caught the podcasting bug, this post by Stephanie Saretsky is one of the few comprehensive how-to podcast blog posts out there. In fact, we dare you to find another one like it.

“No one is teaching how to actually podcast effectively – in a way that engages prospects and actually gets them to convert.”

With many marketing brands jumping on the podcasting bandwagon, why not take a stab at reaching customers or potential leads in a more direct way by using Unbounce’s personal experience as a starting point?

This post goes beyond just editing your podcast and uploading it to iTunes. Stephanie guides you from the ideation phase all the way to dissemination via social platforms to even setting up possible partnerships.

Instagram’s previous ad offerings used to set you back a whopping $200,000! Luckily, Instagram’s API has now opened up a new world for marketers in the mobile advertising space. With this new access comes endless possibilities for advertisers like us to experiment. Let the race begin!

Ryan Holmes rounds out the importance of Instagram’s API offering and encourages digital marketers to jump to it. Like Ryan says:

“With Instagram’s new API offering, ads can now be purchased by just about anyone, using online ad-buying tools offered by official Instagram partners. The move has been called “one of the most anticipated moments in the evolution of advertising.”

Gaining access to a new ad platform is great news for performance marketers and content marketers, and surely something fun to test drive and generate new marketing ideas in 2016.

Make 2016 a year full of testing and experimentation and growth

We’ve specifically chosen blog posts with actionable marketing tips, interesting case studies and important trends. Each post touches on different aspects of digital marketing, including conversion optimization, growth marketing and even social media strategy in order to give the best tips out there.

With these posts covering the full spectrum of marketing, we hope you’ve got some new tools in your toolbox to help you become a better marketer in 2016.

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Did we miss any key posts from 2015? Share some of the posts that inspired you this past year in the comments below.

Since we started plodding around on this rock in space, human beings have always been dissatisfied with their environment — which is (mostly) a good thing. Otherwise we might still live in caves, fearful of the weather and worshipping the sun. It’s dissatisfaction and curiosity which drive us to fix things that ain’t broken.

Back in spring 2013, Smashing Magazine sported a <select> menu as its mobile navigation. It wasn’t considered an anti-pattern back then and I still think it’s a viable solution to the complex problem of how to build accessible and functional cross-device navigation. Brad Frost wrote a few words about the pros and cons of this pattern on his blog and I couldn’t agree more.

Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results.

With so many websites and landing pages not optimized for mobile, it was hard not to be skeptical about the potential impact of the update. But it has been a long time coming. After all, Google claimed that it was a “mobile first” company as far back as 2010.

Was the “Mobilegeddon” nickname overly dramatic? Perhaps. Did the update completely strip non-mobile sites from mobile search results? No. But it has definitely had an effect.

What do you need to know?

First off, you need to know that Google is committed to providing a frictionless experience to mobile users. Websites and landing pages that are not meeting the standards that Google has set are being pushed down in mobile search results.

The message is clear: ignore Google’s mobile standards at your own peril.

In this article, we’ll take a look at some data that shows how Google’s April 21st update has affected search results on desktop and on mobile. We’ll also give you a quick glance into the future of mobile at Google, and how they’re showing their commitment to ensuring the best possible experience for mobile users — and for mobile advertisers.

Non-mobile sites are slipping in mobile search results

When Google makes a big algorithm change, it generally takes a couple of weeks before we really start to see changes.

Within a month, Marketing Land found that, while some sites saw no change at all, others were losing up to 35% of their mobile search rankings in the top three positions. Interestingly, rankings had only dropped 10% on desktop search.

One study by Stone Temple Consulting found that nearly 50% of non-mobile friendly URLs had dropped in rank, but in many cases the top search results were replaced with new non-mobile friendly URLs.

The author of the analysis, Eric Enge, posited that this rather mystifying turn of events may be attributed to these three factors:

The Search Quality Update (an algorithm update from May that changed how Google assesses the quality of search results).

This is likely just the start of what Google plans to do with this algorithm. It is typical for Google to test some things and see how they work. Once they have tuned it, and gain confidence on how the algo works on the entire web as a data set, they can turn up the volume and make the impact significantly higher.

So what the heck has Google been up to since that first month? It looks like Enge was right: they’ve been busy tweaking that algorithm.

Almost three months after the update, Moovweb posted the results of a study in which they had analyzed more than 1,000 ecommerce keywords over a variety of industries. The article states:

We found that 83% of the time, the top result is tagged as mobile-friendly by Google. 81% of the time the top 3 results are mobile-friendly. And when you consider all ten of the spots on Google’s first page, 77% of the search results are “mobile-friendly.”

Google is clearly making an effort to get mobile-friendly results to the top. The problem is that for far too many keywords, not enough websites are actually following along for Google to even give a complete set of mobile-friendly options on the first page of results.

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Mobile-friendliness is affecting AdWords, too

In response to declining traffic caused by the algorithm update, many marketers have begun buying more mobile ads. Sites that are seeing less organic traffic have raised the total CPC (across the board) by 16% as compared to this time last year, according to an Adobe Digital Index report.

Additionally, mobile-friendliness is now a factor in determining Quality Score. Marketers who have built mobile-friendly landing pages in response have been rewarded with winning more auctions and getting more clicks, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Any marketers who use landing pages (and that should be all of us) should be paying attention to this. Mobile usage has been increasing constantly over the last few years, with no signs of slowing down. Marketing campaigns that do not have a mobile dimension are going to be losing to the ones that do.

Putting the effort into creating mobile-friendly landing pages is going to be a major factor in both getting clicks to that page and keeping overall campaign costs down — in fact, it already is!

Google has more mobile innovations on the way for marketers

Google is clearly not finished with its mobile updates. They recently unveiled a few new features that should make digital marketers as giddy as a puppy in a mud puddle.

As we all know, conversions on mobile are notoriously low — according to Monetate, mobile users convert about half as often as their desktop counterparts.

Google is doing its level best to help raise low conversion rates with some rather clever methods of presenting products on mobile. First up is the “Buy Now” button that will be shown in mobile product search results.

Apologies for the blurry image – Google hasn’t made any other images of this feature publicly available. Image source.

When you select a product that appears in search results, you’ll be taken to a microsite within Google that has the look and feel of that particular retailer. From there, you can choose to buy the product, or search for another product from that retailer if the specific item you want isn’t shown.

So far about a dozen merchants are using it and apparently it’s been successful (no word as to the actual numbers). Expect them to launch more products with different merchants soon.

This is further testament to Google’s “mobile first” attitude. If Google can help make sales, they will. Similarly, marketers should be doing everything they can to help give their customers an enjoyable mobile experience.

More clicks + better mobile experience after the click + more sales = a winning equation

So far about a dozen merchants are using it and apparently it’s been successful (no word as to the actual numbers). Expect them to launch more products with different merchants soon.

for everyone involved.

Make sure your websites and landing pages are up to code

Google has never before given us the recipe for success to a search algorithm update. But in this case, they’re so committed to the mobile experience that they have laid out the groundwork so that anyone can be compliant and win traffic (and conversions).

Don’t forget: this isn’t just about making Google happy. The reason Google wants you on board is so that you’re providing a great experience for your mobile users. If you concentrate on making that experience one they find useful, informative and delightful, the rest will fall in place.

The Company

Casa Mineira is a real estate company operating in Brazil. They have eight physical offices spread in different locations in Belo Horizonte, one of Brazil’s largest cities. Apart from a strong physical presence in the city, they also have a website to attract customers online.

The original homepage of the website had a neat and somewhat minimalist design above the fold. The headline, pointing towards a search box, asked people to find a property in Belo Horizonte. This is how the search box on their original homepage looked like:

To improve the conversions of their website, they hired Supersonic, a CRO consultancy in Brazil. Supersonic started by doing email surveys, on-site feedback (using Qualaroo) and exit-surveys to really understand the visitors. One thing that prominently came out from these was that the visitors really needed to perform their search quickly and easily.

Rafael at Supersonic, decided to test a variation and see the effect it will have on conversions. He replaced the standard search box with 2 boxes containing drop down menus. The first box had a drop down list labelled as Type (of apartment) and the second consisted of locations to choose from. Since Casa Mineira operates in one city and all major locations could be easily covered in a drop down menu, they decided to put this new search bar to test using Visual Website Optimizer.

This is how the search box on the variation looked:

The Test

A split URL test was set up and close to 7,500 visitors became a part of the test. The hypothesis was that increasing the usability of the search box by giving users clear choices will lead to more people giving their email ids to be contacted by one of the brokers from Casa Mineira. The conversion goal that was being tracked in VWO was the number of emails collected from each variation.

The Result

The variation outperformed the original homepage and brought the company 57.25% more leads. Here’s a quick comparison image showing the search box in the original and the variation side by side.

Why the Search Box with Drop-Down Menus Won?

The drop-down search gave visitors a clear path of action

With a standard search box, the visitors had to be sure about what they were looking for. Since the scope of a standard search box is limitless, they could type in anything to refer to what they were actually looking for. By covering all the locations and types for the visitors, in the drop down search box, the website made it easier for people to choose from the menu. Additionally, this design avoided the chance of typos and users typing in something and not getting any results when the keywords didn’t match with any listing on the website.

The drop-down made it possible for visitors to search for various combinations of apartment types and locations

In the variation, visitors could select multiple locations and apartment types in one search. In the standard search where visitors had to type keywords, there was no clarity if users could type in multiple locations at one time and how would the search respond if they wanted to look for more than one type of apartment in different locations. By selecting one or more of the choices from the drop-down menu, visitors’ expectations were set right.

Let’s Talk!

What do you think about the new search box on the Casa Mineira website? And how do you think they can optimize their home page further? Share your views in the comments section and together let’s make the web more optimized!